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Two New Zealand skiers are killed and another is injured during an avalanche on Mount Yotei in Hokkaido, Japan.
2024-03-11

Four people are injured after a magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck near Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
2023-05-10

Japan announces it will cancel ceremonies marking the anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami as a precaution against the spread of coronavirus.
2020-03-3

Three large earthquakes measuring between magnitude 6.5 and magnitude 6.8 strike near Vancouver Island. No tsunami warning is issued.
2018-10-21

Hisao Tanaka stands down as the CEO of Japanese company Toshiba following a $1.2 billion accounting scandal.
2015-07-21

The United States Congress negotiates a deal to fast track the Trans-Pacific Partnership between the US and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
2015-04-16

Cuba defends North Korea by circulating an amendment to a European-Japanese draft resolution recommending the referral of North Korea to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.
2014-11-13

The governments of the United States, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands protest the start of Japan's whaling season off the coast of Antarctica.
2011-12-14

New Zealand environmental activist Peter Bethune is given a two year suspended sentence in a Tokyo District Court for his role in boarding a Japanese whaling ship.
2010-07-7

New Zealander Peter Bethune, a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society who captained the "Ady Gil" when it crashed with the MV "Shonan Maru 2" and sank, encounters coastguards, police and protesters as he arrives on the Japanese mainland.
2010-03-13